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• n  a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
• n  a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980

• Serbia and Montenegro
• Union of Serbia and Montenegro
• Yugoslavia
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Jugoslavija

News & Articles

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• The EU gets a new member
  Croatia will become the EU’s 28th member next month. The government promises security and prosperity two decades after the country split from communist Yugoslavia. Not everyone’s so sure.
  June 16, 2013 - GlobalPost
• Judge at War Crimes Tribunal Faults Acquittals of Serb and Croat Commanders
  Frederik Harhoff of Denmark, a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, suggested in a letter that the court’s president, an American, pressured judges in recent verdicts.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Serbia may be on cusp of mining revival after years of decline
  By Aleksandar Vasovic and Stephen Eisenhammer BOR, Serbia/LONDON (Reuters) - Serbia's mining sector, stagnant since the wars that tore Yugoslavia apart in the early 1990s, looks set for a revival as volatile commodity prices increase the allure of countries in Europe with established infrastructure and skilled labor. Once home to a core copper and gold mining facility for the former Yugoslavia ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Olli Rehn in Earthtimes (press release)
  I welcome the news confirmed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that Stojan Zupljanin has been arrested,Rehn said in a statement.
• Kofi Annan in Times Online
  The source of the conflict here is not territory, it is not occupation, it is not settlers. It is a clash between two people and two religions. Anywhere in the world where there are two peoples and two religions, whether it's the former Yugoslavia... Avigdor Lieberman http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEvfBm-Ay04i064m5uRMPGOOLDw6A Boston Globe http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/05/israeli_official_wants_homogenous_nation&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHI6a2l_CoGVv-RysN28_v1ejdjbg Nov 5, 2006 111999 146891 yugoslavia At some stage, I think it would be helpful to have a conference, a conference that brings everybody together, along the lines of what we did in the former Yugoslavia and others, but I think we need to work slowly to get there," Mr Annan said.